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Even when she is looking away, You are planting your gaze. You are quenching  your thirst. Some of you digging holes inside her face.

Erasing her identity  from her face. “If only her lips weren’t so big ” She should put on a weave to hide that huge forehead” You are making her your wishing well.  Casting needles and blades at her to fulfill your own insecurities.

You think she does not see you because she is not looking into the frame. You think she does not hear you wringe her entire face. You think you are not seeing yourself making her fade away.

You think you are not her.

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